Showing posts with label entrepreneures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entrepreneures. Show all posts

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Human Imagination - You Define What Is Possible

Human imagination, the ability to bring into being something that is not present, is one of the most powerful resources on earth. Children spend countless hours entertaining themselves & learning by using their imagination. Abilities, knowledge, & industries spring forth regularly when people exercise this boundless skill. Since the dawn of MLM, a product of imagination, a few creative entrepreneurs refused to allow the arbitrary boundaries of "conventional thought" to bind them & so they learned to generate a recurring income thought to be impossible for one person to build.

Parents do not mean any harm when they pass on to their children as facts the conventions of modern knowledge. Rather, they simply pass on what they know as their way of helping us to grow. They want to protect us from the unknown. And yet, many grow up so insulated from the "dangers of life" that we never venture out of the comfort zone we have developed. This is why so few ever realize the new horizons, new worlds of thought. & a greater understanding of what we do not know.

The common perception is that individuals such as Marco Polo, Alexander Graham Bell, & Neal Armstrong were extraordinary souls. The reality is these men dared oppose the definition of what "was" & "could be". When "extraordinary" people challenge the definition of "impossible" in search of solutions, then fantasy & the unattainable becomes a new invention, & the unknown becomes an established historical fact.

Those intrepid explorers who disavow "the impossible" embody a powerful truth - the key to the power of positive thinking is in how we look at ourselves & our surroundings. "Facts" are challenged & alternative solutions discovered.

See the power of human imagination in action.

The world is full of "exceptional" souls imprisoned by their perceptions of what is possible. The truth is all of us define in our own minds what is or is not impossible - & often times because of what others say. Freedom of discovery & understanding is found in the truth that our limitations are based exclusively on the skills we has yet to obtain & put to work in our lives.

So, will you allow the beliefs of the crowd to shape your future, limit your income, & kill your dreams? or will you exercise your human imagination to push the bounds of your own limitations?

I appreciate you,

Bill Tessore

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

MLM Lead Scam Revealed - Part 2

In "MLM Lead Scam Revealed" I showed what's really been going on in the leads sales industry. Now I'll share my own story into this shadowy under world.

Since the dawn of the internet age the MLM lead sales industry has built fortunes by bamboozling would-be entrepreneurs into believing the only proven system for success in network marketing is buying leads & then making hundreds of calls a week to get new people into their deal. And some industry leaders have joined the fun by making "deals" with those leads companies.

Here are two truths about MLM & the leaders in it.

1. You must have a proven system for success to build your business & team. Contacting over-sold leads is a proven system for failure for most in MLM.

2. A MLM "leader" has experience with integrity. Even super recruiters can't duplicate their success ... but they won't tell you that.

My personal MLM lead scam story.

After I joined a MLM company a fellow rep, living in my area began promoting a lead sales & auto-responder system. She was having "success" with this system so many of us started using that system. Let's call that system BamboozleBiz.com.

What few in our company knew at the time was BamboozleBiz.com had discretely contracted this woman as a spokes person & trainer.

Many reps in our company bought hundreds, even thousands, of dollars worth of BamboozleBiz.com leads& spent countless hours training to learn how to use the auto-responder system & the phone scripts. Some even went to high-ticket seminars for additional training.

I never had any success recruiting with these leads & had come to the conclusion I'd just not spent enough time & money on the training to make this system work. And of course, I hadn't even considered going to those seminars for that additional training the "real leaders" participated in.

This lead system trainer had set up a weekly training session at a local restaurant. One day while at one such meeting one of our number showed up late only to announce he was dropping out of the company.

When asked "Why?" he told us he'd spent more than he could afford to & was there to sell off the last of the BamboozleBiz leads he had in an effort to cut his losses.

Needless to say those leads were bought up immediately by one of the "real leaders" at our table. I still remember the look of serene resignation on the face of that trainer as she bad this poor fellow good-bye & good luck.

As the man walked away, his shattered dreams leaving a pool of blood all over our table & our hearts, an uneasy feeling began to grow in the pit of my stomach.

Time passed & I dropped my BamboozleBiz subscription & that MLM company to follow my sponsor to something else. Then my sponsor told me that the woman who had set up those local area meetings to help us learn to use the BamboozleBiz.com system had made a deal with that leads company.

That knot in my stomach exploded into vapor! To put it mildly I felt betrayed.

While it was true this woman did build a team of her own within the MLM company my sponsor & I had just left, it is also true that she was passing herself off as a mentor who was helping anyone she could out of the goodness of her heart.

What an actress!

The truth is that woman was raking in a handsome income from the sales of BamboozleBiz.com leads. And at the same time she was stepping over the carcasses of those who could not duplicate her success as they could not duplicate that "deal".

Several years later I heard that this same woman who had made that "deal" with BamboozleBiz.com had started her own MLM business. I couldn't help but wonder how big a factor that "deal" played in helping her fund that new company. Hmmm ...

So, do you think hers is a 5 Pillars company?

HINT:

Pillar #1 is "Company Management Experience With Integrity", and Pillar #5 is "A Proven System For Duplication."

You do the math.

I appreciate you,

Bill Tessore